Sweren Greenspring Quotes & Sayings

My father ... gave me a positive connection with men because he is a gentleman. — Iman

You don't have to become something that you aren't to become better than you are. — Sidney Poitier

Anyone who still wants to experience fairytales these days can't afford to dither when it comes to using their brains. — Robert Musil

It's only the boring who are bored. — W. Somerset Maugham

No one has ever laughed at a pun who did not see in the one word a twofold meaning. To materialists this world is opaque like a curtain; nothing can be seen through it. A mountain is just a mountain, a sunset just a sunset; but to poets, artists, and saints, the world is transparent like a window pane - it tells of something beyond ... a mountain tells of the Power of God, the sunset of His Beauty, and the snowflake of His Purity. — Fulton J. Sheen

Better to be without logic than without feeling. — Charlotte Bronte

Old men only lie in wait for people to ask them to talk. Then they rattle on like a rusty elevator wheezing up a shaft. — Ray Bradbury

Normally, we allow enthusiasm to elude us when we are involved in such mundane activities, those that have no importance at all in the overall scale of our existence. We lose our enthusiasm because of the small and unavoidable defeats we suffer during the good fight. And since we don't realize that enthusiasm is a major strength, able to help us win the ultimate victory, we let it dribble through our fingers; we do this without recognizing that we are letting the true meaning of our lives escape us. We blame the world for our boredom and for our losses, and we forget that it was we ourselves who allowed this enchanting power, which justifies everything, to diminish
the manifestation of agape in the form of enthusiasm. — Paulo Coelho

The school is a political prize of the highest importance. It cannot be deprived of its political character as long as it remains a public and compulsory institution. — Ludwig Von Mises

I want to be loved. Oh, it's SO CORNY, isn't it?! But I just want to be loved by a bloke that loves ME! I want to feel special, you know. I almost feel guilty for feeling it. — Rae Earl